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3) Censoring science: inside the political attack on Dr. James Hansen and the truth of global warming
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Taylor Trade Publishing
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
In this controversial new book Australia's leading geologist makes the case that carbon dioxide is just one of many factors that drive climate-- and a relatively insignificant one at that. Heaven and Earth engagingly and comprehensively synthesizes what we know-- or think we know-- about the sun, earth, ice, water, and air. Heaven and Earth is a powerful argument against many of the punitive-- and expensive-- laws that are now being passed to 'protect'...
Publisher
Haymarket Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
An urgent call for climate justice from Teen Vogue, one of this generation's leading voices, using an intersectional lens - with critical feminist, indigenous, antiracist and internationalist perspectives. As the political classes watch our world burn, a new movement of young people is rising to meet the challenge of climate catastrophe.
8) Vigil Harbor
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"A decade in the future, in the historic town of Vigil Harbor, there's been a rash of divorces among the yacht-club set; a marine biologist despairs at the state of the world; a spurned wife is bent on revenge; and the renowned architect Austin Kepner pursues a passion for building homes to withstand the escalating fury of coastal storms. Brecht, Austin's stepson, has dropped out of college and retreated home from New York after narrowly escaping...
10) The story of more: how we got to climate change and where to go from here : adapted for young adults
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A young adult adaptation of Hope Jahren's nonfiction work, The Story of More: How We Got to Climate Change and Where We Go from Here"--
Author
Language
English
Description
A practical and comprehensive guide to designing and maintaining shade gardens while dealing with a changing climate, shrinking resources, and challenging new weather patterns. Druse offers advice for common problems facing today's gardeners, from addressing the deer situation to watering plants without stressing limited resources.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In the tradition of Elizabeth Kolbert and Barry Lopez, a powerful, poetic and deeply absorbing account of the "lung" at the top of the world. For the last fifty years, the trees of the boreal forest have been moving north. Ben Rawlence's The Treeline takes us along this critical frontier of our warming planet from Norway to Siberia, Alaska to Greenland, to meet the scientists, residents and trees confronting huge geological changes. Only the hardest...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown Spark
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
In this bold, radically hopeful book, a data scientist, drawing on the latest research, practical guidance and eye-opening graphics, gives us the tools for understanding our current environmental crisis and making lifestyle changes that actually have an impact.
18) The fire eternal
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
As the weather grows wilder and the ice caps melt, Arctic bears starve, dragons awake, the earth goddess Gaia becomes restless, and Alexa, the daughter of best-selling author David Rain, uses her special abilities in an attempt to save the world from the forces of evil.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Offers a detailed background of the science of climatology and explains how carbon dioxide and water vapor interact to regulate the earth's thermostat arguing that scientific evidence shows that use of fossil fuels has accelerated global warming.
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